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[[Characters/RevolutionaryGirlUtenaUtenaTenjou Utena Tenjou]] | [[Characters/RevolutionaryGirlUtenaAnthyHimemiya Anthy Himemiya]] | '''Akio Ohtori''' | [[Characters/RevolutionaryGirlUtenaTheStudentCouncilMembers The Student Council Members]] | [[Characters/RevolutionaryGirlUtenaTheBlackRoseDuelists The Black Rose Duelists]] | [[Characters/RevolutionaryGirlUtenaOtherCharacters Other Characters]]]]-]]]

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!!'''Akio Ohtori'''
!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/JurotaKosugi (Japanese, series), Mitsuhiro Oikawa (Japanese, Movie), Creator/CrispinFreeman (English, episode 13), Josh Mosby (English, series and movie), Gerardo del Valle (Latin American Spanish)
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The highly attractive acting chairman of Ohtori Academy, as well as Anthy's brother. A powerful man who oversees the school from his tower. He's a WalkingSpoiler, so all entries for this character are unmarked.
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* AdaptationDyeJob: Originally had black hair and brown eyes in Saitou's early illustrations, but his hair changed to lavender in the color images produced after the anime.
* AdaptationalVillainy: Unlike in the manga and anime, Akio in the movie was ''never'' a good person, as Prince Dios is a separate entity that Anthy created in response to her brother's abuse.
* AdaptationalWimp: In the anime, Akio is an inscrutable and seemingly invincible ManipulativeBastard. In TheMovie he is presented as a much more foppish and blatantly pathetic character, and he toppled out of a window after freaking out over the fact that his sister ''hadn't'' been asleep when he was molesting her.
* AloofBigBrother: He comes off as this at first; appearing to simply be a concerned and caring, if busy big brother.
* AmbiguouslyBrown: Like Anthy, he has a dark skintone but a Japanese name.
* AnythingThatMoves: If he can get results from sleeping with you, anything goes, and anything ''will'' go.
%%* BadassBaritone
* BadassInANiceSuit: Usually in a red button-down shirt.
%%* BastardBoyfriend: To his fiancée Kanae. And to Anthy.
* BigBad: He's End of the World, the one who's been organizing the duels, forcing Anthy to be a prize in them, for the purpose of gaining her power. He ruthlessly manipulates Utena and his sister.
* BigBrotherBully: He forced her to have sex with him against her will to cope with the loss of his dominant power.
* BitchInSheepsClothing: In public, he appears to be a wise, charming gentleman and a ReasonableAuthorityFigure. In reality, he abuses his own sister, manipulates a bunch of insecure teenagers, and cheats on his fiancée Kanae with multiple people. When Utena finally confronts him, he shows himself to be a sexist by telling her to give up fighting for Anthy because [[StayInTheKitchen dresses don't go with swords]].
* BrotherSisterIncest: You want to know part of the reason Anthy is so deeply angry? This is a very, very large part of it-- it's one of the many ways he asserts control over her.
* BrokenAce: He once was the most generous and sweet person as Prince Dios, but his terrible experiences left him completely disenchanted and embittered. Now he's a ManipulativeBastard who manipulates everyone and everything -- including Anthy, his little sister, who is pretty much trapped in a FateWorseThanDeath ''and'' he keeps her there.
* BrokenPedestal: Akio is actually the Prince whom Utena met when she was a young girl, and the one who saved her from her DespairEventHorizon. The revelation of how much of a ManipulativeBastard he is and his abuse of Anthy shatters any admiration that Utena previously had for him.
* BroughtDownToNormal: It's implied that when Anthy took the swords of hatred for him she ended up sealing away all of Akio's former power as Prince Dios into herself, and that all of the bizarre magic he seemingly is capable of is actually a combination of using Anthy's power, and illusions from the Planetarium. After Anthy leaves Akio forever it's implied that he returns to being a normal human-- a FateWorseThanDeath for an egotist like him.
* TheCasanova: Basically anyone who's female and meets him is soon infatuated with him, which he invariably takes advantage of.
%%* CelestialBody: Used symbolically at the end of episode 25.
* TheChessmaster: He's been directing the duels for who-knows-how-long.
* ColorCodedEyes: He has green eyes, reflecting his exoticness, his status as TheCasanova, and the fact that he's a PhysicalGod.
* CoolBigBro: When he's introduced, Akio is an affable gentleman to Utena and a kind elder brother to Anthy. Horribly subverted when we discover what kind of person he really is.
%%* CoolCar: The Akio Car[[note]]the name comes from the soundtrack[[/note]].
* ConsummateLiar: He's a very, ''very'' good liar, perhaps one of his key traits that goes in-check with his rampant {{hypocrisy}}. If not for his suspicious scenes with his sister and Touga, there would be ''NO'' reason to suspect him of being anything else but a wise, charming gentleman, especially in the Black Rose arc. He acted very sincerely to Utena and Anthy, genuinely coming across as said wise, charming gentleman, even going as far as listening to Utena's consultation and giving her some wisdom. When the series enters to the Akio arc, he had already cheated on his fiancée with [[BrotherSisterIncest his own sister]], his fiancée's mother and Touga, had raped his sister, and had tempted a bunch of insecure teenagers to the dueling game that gives his own sister as the Rose Bride to whoever wins. This even extends towards his ''own sister'', as he manipulates her into staying with him by convincing her that the dueling game is necessary for him to regain his lost powers as the heroic Dios when he has no intention of saving her from her constant suffering.
%%* ClaspYourHandsIfYouDeceive
* CulturedBadass: In the anime.
* DeadAllAlong: In the movie, it's discovered he fell out a window and died some time before Utena came to Ohtori Academy.
%%* DealWithTheDevil: He ''loves'' making these.
* DeathByAdaptation: In TheMovie, he is DeadAllAlong.
* DepravedBisexual: He uses sex as a tool for manipulation, seducing boys and girls, including his own sister, alike for his own ends.
* DespairEventHorizon: His reaction isn't shown, but it occurs when the mob of irate townspeople impaled [[WouldHurtAChild Anthy]] for wanting to let her older brother recover from the strain of [[ChronicHeroSyndrome saving people all the time]].
* DirtyCoward: A more notable incident was him throwing Anthy in front of Utena during her assault when she starts kicking his ass in their duel, and is horrible enough to secretly order Anthy to stab Utena in the back. Literally.
* DomesticAbuse: The entire series could be seen as a case study in how domestic abusers of all kinds (spouses, parents, caretakers, etc.) systematically destroy any resolve their victims have, eventually turning them into the passive husk Anthy is at the beginning of the series. He undermines her confidence, treats her like property, cuts her off from any meaningful relationships, passes her around to any (potentially abusive) student that wins the duel, and rapes her weekly. Take out the duel aspect, and you could find the same behavior in a lot of domestic abuse cases.
* DrivenToSuicide: In ''After the Revolution'', he killed himself in despair shortly after Anthy left him at the end of the series.
* DrivesLikeCrazy: Practically every Akio car scene ends with him leaving the driver's seat to lounge on the hood of the car with his shirt open, ''while it's speeding down the highway''. Some of them open with him somehow driving his car into interior rooms of the Academy.
%%* EvenTheGuysWantHim: Just ask Touga.
* EvilMentor: He often listens to Utena's consultation and gives her some wisdom. Played with since she didn't know he was evil until the final duel with him.
* EvilPlan: As End of the World Akio manipulates various teenagers to do battle in his duels in order to find someone of true nobility and love. When he finds said person he intends to use their sword of love and nobility to shatter the Rose Gate in order to regain his lost power as Prince Dios and revolutionise the world.
%%* EvilSoundsDeep
* FallenAngel: Depending on how literally you chose to interpret his backstory. Metaphorically speaking, he's definitely one. His name even roughly translates as "Lucifer". And given that his name used to be "Dios", he's a fallen God as well.
* FallenHero: After Anthy's HeroicSacrifice for Prince Dios, he was born as the corrupt half of Prince Dios.
* AFamilyAffair: He ends up sleeping with his fiancée's mother. He's a lot more of a ManipulativeBastard about it, though.
* FauxAffablyEvil: He comes off as a ReasonableAuthorityFigure to the students in the Academy and is quite friendly and charming to most people, though in reality the one and ''only'' thing he cares about is securing and maintaining his own power.
* FinalBoss: He's the final duelist Utena faces. Either his ghost or Prince Dios is the final obstacle for Anthy in TheMovie.
* FreudianExcuse: Even he has one. Back when he was still Dios, he worked himself almost to death while trying to save people, so his sister hid him inside their house. When people came looking for him, she tried to stop them, and she was stabbed many times, turning her into the Rose Bride. It is implied that this event also led to Akio and Dios becoming separate people.
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* HateSink: The movie version of Akio lacks his anime counterpart's charisma, tragic origin, and [[EvilIsHammy entertainingly-grandiose mannerisms]]. Instead, Akio is simply a sexual predator who is pathetic as he is disgusting.
* HotForStudent: Do you really wanna know how many students Akio sleeps with? Does anybody really know?
* {{Hypocrite}}:
** Akio has been cheating on his fiancée with [[IBangedYourMom her mother]], [[EvilRedhead Touga]], and [[TheHero Utena]]. When Utena confronts him in the final duel, he tells her that she is guilty of sleeping with an engaged man, all while ignoring the fact that he is guilty of statutory rape.
** When he makes his housemates a cake and later a meal, Akio is praised by Utena for being a SupremeChef, rebuking the idea that FeminineWomenCanCook. In the GrandFinale, when he makes Utena his princess, he tells her to give up fighting for Anthy because [[StayInTheKitchen dresses don't go with swords]].
* ImmortalImmaturity: Despite nominally representing adulthood and also being ReallySevenHundredYearsOld, Akio is more an eternal teenager obsessed with sex, power and avoiding responsibility and pain.
%%* InstantSeduction: Have you met Akio? Congratulations, you're going to be having sex with him very soon.
* ItsAllAboutMe: As he loses his powers once as Prince Dios after Anthy took the swords of hate for him, he became bitter and selfish over it as he goes under the alias Akio Ohtori years later. He desires to regain it back by manipulating many of the duelists including Utena within Ohtori Academy to duel with each other until he finds a sword with the power of love and nobility. Utena eventually wields it for him to break open the Rose Gates containing his lost power.
%%* JadeColoredGlasses:
%%* JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope: We don't see it, but evidently he did at some point in the past.
* KarmaHoudiniWarranty: Even if Akio got to keep his place in Ohtori and [[RetGone Utena's gone,]] Utena still managed to get the last laugh-- she finally managed to free Anthy from his control, and Anthy decides to [[ButNowIMustGo leave Ohtori Academy,]] and goes WalkingTheEarth with Chuchu to search for Utena despite his pleas. Keep in mind that it's implied Akio has no magic of his own, so with Anthy gone he's completely powerless.
* LackOfEmpathy: He doesn't care that his own sister continues taking the Swords of Hate for him. He doesn't care that he's passing his own sister around like a prize to whoever wins the dueling game. He doesn't care that he's cheated on his fiancée on various people, including her mother, without her knowing. He doesn't care that he's slept with teenagers like Touga and Utena, which makes him guilty of statutory rape. In the end, he doesn't seem to care about anything but regaining his lost powers as Dios.
* LightIsNotGood: Named after a star, and his name roughly translates to "Lucifer". Akio is associated with light via his interest in stars and astronomy. This connection to light turns out to be key to his villainy, as he is a ManipulativeBastard who uses his planetarium skills to project a massive illusion that is the castle in the sky-- the entire thing was made of light. He also dresses in white when brainwashing students in his car, and when he confronts Utena in the dueling arena.
** Later in the story, Akio confesses to Utena that he has no real interest in stars. Make of that what you will.
* LongHairedPrettyBoy: Usually he keeps it in a ponytail. When he lets it out, it's more obvious that it's a mullet.
* ManipulativeBastard: '''Wow.''' Manipulates Anthy, manipulates Utena, manipulates the Student Council, manipulates a guy from fifty years ago so hard he ''creates an illusive reality''.
* ManOfWealthAndTaste: He's got an undoubtedly expensive muscle car, a home in a planetarium, and a fiancée in an influential family. One of the teachers even comments on his looks and style.
* MasterOfIllusion: Uses the planetarium to create all the weirdness of the dueling arena.
* MoreThanMindControl: His relationship with Anthy-- he's emotionally twisted her into wanting to stay with him forever, even though both of them are perfectly aware she's utterly miserable. Tellingly, his ultimate defeat is Utena helping Anthy break out of his influence and realizing no, he needs her a lot more than she needs him.
* MrFanservice: He is seen shirtless every time he leaves the driver's seat to lounge on the hood of the car.
* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: He spells it out to the audience when he tells Utena he's named after [[TheCasanova Venus]], also known as the Morning Star, also known as ''[[{{Satan}} Lucifer]]''. As the man himself puts it, "The star who was an Angel who decided to become the King of Hell, and rises only after the sun sets" (itself referring to his fall from being Dios). [[SkilledbutNaive Utena]] [[WideEyedIdealist being]] [[NiceGirl Utena,]] she didn't realize that this was absolutely ''not'' a person to fall in love with.
* NeverMyFault: Akio never accepts responsibility for Anthy's original death, her FateWorseThanDeath, or his statutory rape of Utena; he instead puts the blame on both of them, the world, the townspeople, even claiming that Anthy willingly continued being a SilentScapegoat for him and that Utena is guilty of sleeping with an engaged man.
* NormalFishInATinyPond: Akio might rule over Ohtori with an iron fist but he's a thousand-year-old god reduced to playing with schoolchildren. It's also implied (with how Anthy leaves him and the other children will soon graduate) that in the real world with self-possessed and confident adults, he would be utterly powerless. ''After the Revolution'' even suggests that in the real world outside of Otori, Akio (operating under the pseudonym of Rime) has been held at least somewhat accountable for his crimes and abuses.
%%* NoSenseOfPersonalSpace: With anyone he tries to seduce.
%%* NotSoDifferent: In his speech to Utena in the penultimate episode.
* NotSoWellIntentionedExtremist: As "End of the World", he runs the Rose Duels, where the Rose Bride Anthy is the glorified slave to both him and the winner. Near the GrandFinale, he claims that it's so someone noble can open the Rose Gate for him to free her with the Power of Dios. However, he's nothing more than a selfish manipulator in PrinceCharming's clothing who wants to physically, mentally, and sexually dominate everyone, having no qualms about letting her stay his SilentScapegoat forever just so he can escape the agony of getting stabbed by the countless Swords of Hate.
* OhCrap: Twice; first when Utena temporaily loses the Power of Dios in Episode 25, and later in his duel with Utena herself when she puts him on the ropes after destroying the planetarium with her ShutUpHannibal BadassBoast.
* OurGhostsAreDifferent: ''After the Revolution'' suggests that even though he has died, Akio is continuing to influence the fates of students from the series, using his posthumously produced art pieces as a calling card. An apparition of Akio, dressed as Prince Dios, even seems to haunt the grounds of Ohtori Academy, stubbornly defending what remains of "his world" after the loss of Anthy and her magic has left it to rot.
* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: In the final battle, he tells Utena to stop fighting for Anthy's freedom and become his princess because, according to him, girls can't handle any power and dresses don't go with swords.
%%* ThePornomancer: If you made a drinking game of how often his shirt flies open....
* PosthumousCharacter: In the ''After the Revolution'' manga, and possibly the ''Adolescence of Utena'' film. While he does appear in both iterations, there are points in both where it's unclear if he's alive or dead. ''After the Revolution'' suggests that he may be continuing to produce art under a pseudonym from beyond the grave.
* PrinceCharmless: He acts like a proper prince, but under the facade, he's pure evil rather than just charmless.
* PsychopathicManchild: What he is deep down. Beneath the manipulations, seductions and duels is only a selfish child, refusing to grow up, who makes others suffer for his own amusement and desires. The moment he thinks the swords are going to get him, he starts freaking out.
* RatedMForManly: Akio roars down the road in his red stick shift muscle car, front flips over the top and rides the hood of his car, shirtless. Awesome. Subverted as a masculinity based on sex and material goods is shown to be shallow and toxic. Akio's adulthood is not true adulthood but what a kid would imagine it to be.
* ReallyGetsAround: One of his defining traits.
* ReallySevenHundredYearsOld: Like Anthy, he seems to have been around since at least the Middle Ages.
* RealMenCook: He is shown baking a cake and later cooking.
%%* RenaissanceMan: He is mentioned as being an artist and scientist, as well as the mastermind of many of the series' most bizarre events.
* RightThroughHisPants: He only ever unzips. Likewise, for all the times his shirt opens, it never even leaves his shoulders. This is likely more to illustrate his power dynamic than to "censor" the unwanted sight of male skin, as ''Utena'' uses clothing to illustrate a character's status. It's also no coincidence that Anthy [[ShamefulStrip is always nude for their trysts]].
* SageLoveInterest: Certainly plays this role, both as mythical Prince Dios and as the cultured Chairman of the academy to Utena. More generally, his sagelike presentation is key to his GentlemanAndAScholar public identity. Subverted in how it's yet another shallow front for his [[BigBad amoral]], [[PsychopathicManchild childish]] and [[LackOfEmpathy indifferent]] [[ItsAllAboutMe true]] [[EvilCannotComprehendGood nature]].
* SatanicArchetype: After Anthy's HeroicSacrifice for Prince Dios, Akio was born as [[FallenHero the corrupt half of Prince Dios]] called the End of the World. Like how Literature/TheBible claims Lucifer can appear as "an angel of light", Akio is gentle, charming and beautiful but only to hide [[LightIsNotGood the pure malevolence underneath]], that of a selfish manipulator who uses everyone as his own tools to advance him. As the End of the World, he tempts a bunch of insecure teenagers to the dueling game that gives his own sister as the Rose Bride to whoever wins. He wants the power of Dios for himself after he fell in despair and selfishness, abandoned the people whom he used to protect, and became the BigBad and the person behind Anthy's painful, cruel situation. Furthermore, his name even roughly translates as "Lucifer".
%%* ShirtlessScene: Played for {{fanservice}} and laughs.
%%* SituationalSword
* TheSociopath: He [[FauxAffablyEvil has a superficial charm]], which he uses to hide his despicable nature under the guise of a charming gentleman from the public. He manipulates everyone around him, including [[ExtremeDoormat Anthy]] and [[DisposableFiancee Kanae]], as pawns to regain his lost power as Prince Dios by any means necessary. He is a textbook {{Domestic Abuse}}r to Anthy, passing her around like the prize to whoever wins the dueling game, raping her weekly, and telling her that only he can love her. He [[NeverMyFault never accepts responsibility]] for Anthy's original death, her continued suffering, or his statutory rape of Utena; he instead puts the blame on both of them, the world, the townspeople, even claiming that Anthy willingly continued being a SilentScapegoat for him and that Utena is guilty of sleeping with an engaged man.
* StayInTheKitchen: When he makes Utena his princess, he tells her to give up fighting for Anthy because dresses don't go with swords. Of course, Utena refuses.
* TwoAliasesOneCharacter: Akio is also Dios, The End of the World, and (in ''After the Revolution'') Rime - with each name carrying its own heavy symbolism.
* UngratefulBastard: Anthy took the Swords of Hate in his place, subjecting herself to a FateWorseThanDeath in the process. Since then, he keeps her as a SilentScapegoat because he wants to live in comfort.
%%* UsedToBeASweetKid: Oh Prince Dios, '''how low you have fallen.'''
* VillainousBreakdown: Quite a few times during his duel with Utena, first when she rejects his ideals about her status as a princess and reaffirms that she will save Anthy. Then when Utena is capable of opening the Rose Gate that he couldn't unlock and the swords of hatred stop impaling Anthy causing him to have a FreakOut. Finally after Anthy leaves him forever and all he can do is shout for her to return.
* VillainInAWhiteSuit: He dresses in white whenever he drives his car and during his duel with Utena. He's a princely, cultured, sexy man who rules the school, and is an evil, manipulative bastard.
* VillainousIncest: He's the series' main villain who regularly has sex with his younger sister (and doesn't seem to care if she's willing).
* VillainousLegacy: In the movie Akio is DeadAllAlong rather than being the ManBehindTheMan, but his treatment of Anthy is still a major reason she became the Rose Bride. ''After the Revolution'' involves Touga and Saionji grappling with Akio's legacy and his impact on their character and lives in adulthood.
* WalkingSpoiler: To the point there's no point to ''hiding'' anything on this page. This is mainly due to the two biggest mysteries of the plot, the identities of End of the World and Utena's prince, both end up being him.
* WickedCultured: A sophisticated man who references Greek mythology, [[VillainInAWhiteSuit dresses well]], and serves as the main antagonistic force.
* WouldHitAGirl: He has no problems with raping or fighting a woman.
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* OurGhostsAreDifferent: ''After the Revolution'' suggests that even though he has died, Akio is continuing to influence the fates of students from the series, using his posthumously produced art pieces as a calling card.

* VillainousLegacy: In the movie Akio is DeadAllAlong rather than being the ManBehindTheMan, but his treatment of Anthy is still a major reason she became the Rose Bride.

* NormalFishInATinyPond: Akio might rule over Ohtori with an iron fist but he's a thousand-year-old god reduced to playing with schoolchildren. It's also implied (with how Anthy leaves him and the other children will soon graduate) that in the real world with self-possessed and confident adults, he would be utterly powerless.

* PrinceCharmless: He acts like a proper prince, but under the facade, he's pure evil rather than just charmless.

* PosthumousCharacter: In the ''After the Revolution'' manga, and possibly the ''Adolescence of Utena'' film. While he does appear in both iterations, it's unclear if he's alive or dead. ''After the Revolution'' suggests that he may be continuing to produce art under a pseudonym from beyond the grave.

%%* RenaissanceMan

* ConsummateLiar: He's a very, ''very'' good liar, perhaps one of his key traits that goes in-check with his rampant {{hypocrisy}}. If not for his suspicious scenes with his sister and Touga, there would be ''NO'' reason to suspect him of being anything else but a wise, charming gentleman, especially in the Black Rose arc. He acted very sincerely to Utena and Anthy, genuinely coming across as sais wise, charming gentleman, even going as far as listening to Utena's consultation and giving her some wisdom. When the series enters to the Akio arc, he had already cheated on his fiancée with [[BrotherSisterIncest his own sister]], his fiancée's mother and Touga, had raped his sister, and had tempted a bunch of insecure teenagers to the dueling game that gives his own sister as the Rose Bride to whoever wins. This even extends towards his ''own sister'', as he manipulates her into staying with him by convincing her that the dueling game is necessary for him to regain his lost powers as the heroic Dios when he has no intention of saving her from her constant suffering.

* AdaptationalVillainy: Unlike in the manga and anime, Akio in the movie was ''never'' a good person as [[spoiler:Prince Dios is a separate entity that Anthy created in response to her brother's abuse]].

* LackOfEmpathy: He doesn't care his own sister continues taking the Swords of Hate for him. He doesn't care he is passing his own sister around like the prize to whoever wins the dueling game. He doesn't care he has cheated on his fiancée on various people, including her mother, without her knowing. He doesn't care he has slept with teenagers like Touga and Utena, which makes him guilty of statutory rape. In the end, he doesn't seem to care about anything but regaining his lost powers as Dios.
* LightIsNotGood: Named after a star, and his name roughly translates to "Lucifer". Akio is associated with light via his interest in stars and astronomy. This connection to light turns out to be key to his villainy, as he is a ManipulativeBastard who uses his planetarium skills to project a massive illusion that is the castle in the sky- the entire thing was made of light. He also dresses in white when brainwashing students in his car and when he confronts Utena in the dueling arena.

* MoreThanMindControl: His relationship with Anthy - on some level, he's emotionally twisted her into wanting to stay with him forever, even though both of them are perfectly aware she's utterly miserable. Tellingly, his ultimate defeat is Utena helping Anthy break out of his influence and realizing no, he needs her a lot more than she needs him.

* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: He spells it out to the audience when he tells Utena he's named after [[TheCasanova Venus]], also known as the Morning Star, also known as ''[[{{Satan}} Lucifer]]''. As the man himself puts it, "The star who was an Angel who decided to become the King of Hell, and rises only after the sun sets" (itself referring to his fall from being Dios). Utena being Utena, she didn't realize that this was absolutely ''not'' a person to fall in love with.

* HateSink: The movie version of Akio lacks his anime counterpart's charisma, tragic origin, and [[EvilIsHammy entertainingly-grandiose mannerisms]]. Instead Akio is a sexual predator who is pathetic as he is disgusting.

* KarmaHoudiniWarranty: Even if Akio got to keep his place in Ohtori and Utena was gone, Utena herself had the last laugh as she finally managed to free Anthy from his control, so Anthy ultimately says "ButNowIMustGo" and goes WalkingTheEarth with Chuchu despite his pleas. Keep in mind that it's implied Akio has no magic of his own, so with Anthy gone he's completely powerless, and this is ''one of the worst things that could ever happen to him''.

* DespairEventHorizon: His reaction isn't shown, but it's when the mob of irate townspeople impaled [[WouldHurtAChild Anthy]] for wanting to let her older brother recover from the strain of [[ChronicHeroSyndrome saving people all the time]].
* DirtyCoward: A more notable incident was him throwing Anthy in front of Utena during her assault when she starts kicking his ass in their duel and is horrible enough to secretly order Anthy to stab Utena in the back literally.
* DomesticAbuse: The entire series could be seen as a case study in how domestic abusers of all kinds (spouses, parents, caretakers, etc.) systematically destroy any resolve their victims have, eventually rendering them to the passive husk Anthy is at the beginning of the series. He undermines her confidence, treats her like property, cuts her off from any meaningful relationships, passes her around to any (potentially abusive) student that wins the duel, and rapes her weekly. Take out the duel aspect, and you could find the same behavior in a lot of domestic abuse cases.

* DrivesLikeCrazy: Practically every Akio Car scene ends with him leaving the driver's seat to lounge on the hood of the car with his shirt open, ''while it's speeding down the highway''. Some of them open with him somehow driving his car into interior rooms of the Academy.

* BroughtDownToNormal: It's implied that when Anthy took the swords of hatred for him she ended up sealing away all of Akio's former power as Prince Dios into herself and that all of the bizarre magic he seemingly is capable of is actually a combination of using Anthy's power and illusions from the Planetarium. After Anthy leaves Akio forever it's implied that he returns to being a normal human-- a FateWorseThanDeath for an egotist like him.

* BitchInSheepsClothing: In public, he appears to be a wise, charming gentleman and a ReasonableAuthorityFigure. In reality, he abuses his own sister, Anthy, manipulates a bunch of insecure teenagers, and cheats on his fiancée, Kanae, with multiple people. When Utena finally confronts him, he shows himself to be a sexist by telling her to give up fighting for Anthy because [[StayInTheKitchen dresses don't go with swords]].

* BitchInSheepsClothing: In public, he appears to be a wise, charming gentleman and a ReasonableAuthorityFigure. In reality, he abuses his own sister, Anthy, manipulates a bunch of insecure teenagers, and cheats on his fiancée, Kanae, with many people. When Utena finally confronts him, he shows himself to be a sexist by telling her to give up fighting for Anthy because [[StayInTheKitchen dresses don't go with swords]].

* AloofBigBrother: He comes off as this at first being a concerned and caring if busy big brother.

* BrotherSisterIncest: You want to know part of the reason Anthy is so deeply angry? This is a very, very large part of it-it's one of the many ways he asserts control over her.

* BrokenPedestal: Akio is actually the Prince whom Utena meet when she was a girl and the one who saved her from her DespairEventHorizon. The revelation of how much of a ManipulativeBastard he is and his abuse of Anthy shatter any and all admiration that Utena had for him.

* GreaterScopeVillain: In the movie Akio is DeadAllAlong rather than being the ManBehindTheMan, but his treatment of Anthy is still a major reason she became the Rose Bride.

* GreaterScopeVillain: In the movie Akio is DeadAllAlong rather than being the ManBehindTheMan,

* FinalBoss: He's the final duelist Utena faces. He's also this for Anthy in TheMovie.

%%* VillainousIncest

%%* AGodAmI:

* GreaterScopeVillain: Of the two first arcs of the TV series.

* HateSink: Akio Ohtori convinces his 14-year-old student and housemate, [[Characters/RevolutionaryGirlUtenaUtenaTenjou Utena Tenjou]], that he's a rich, wise gentleman and the only ReasonableAuthorityFigure in Ohtori Academy. The truth is that, as "End of the World", he runs the Rose Duels that pass his sister, [[Characters/RevolutionaryGirlUtenaAnthyHimemiya Anthy Himemiya,]] around as the docile Rose Bride to the victors, abusive or otherwise. He claims to be the only one who can love Anthy and save her from taking the Swords of Hate in his place as a witch, but he has no qualms about raping her during their weekly tryst, letting the Swords stab her, throwing her as a meat shield against Utena, or ordering her to stab Utena in the back literally. He only sees his fiancée, Kanae, as a means to stay in power as the acting chairman, sleeping with her mother and implicitly disposing of her in secret. He seduces the blissfully unaware Utena, with their age differences making her consent for their sex {{questionable|Consent}} at best. When confronted, he offers Utena a chance to become his princess and leave Anthy in distress, saying that [[StayInTheKitchen she shouldn't fight because "dresses don't go with swords".]] He refuses to take responsibility for his actions, going as far as to tell Utena that she has compromised her morals by sleeping with an engaged man and that Anthy enjoys being a witch.

* DeadAllAlong: In the movie. It's even taken one step further when it's suggested that his idealized self ''Prince'' Dios was never even real in the first place, but was just a creation of Anthy's magic.

%%* LightIsNotGood:

* ManInWhite: He dresses in white whenever he drives his car and during his duel with Utena.

* PrinceCharming: Used to be this as Dios. He's still very charming, but it's just a facade he uses to manipulate people.
%%* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: